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<journal-id>2183-3176</journal-id>
<journal-title><![CDATA[Cadernos do Arquivo Municipal]]></journal-title>
<abbrev-journal-title><![CDATA[Cadernos do Arquivo Municipal]]></abbrev-journal-title>
<issn>2183-3176</issn>
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<publisher-name><![CDATA[Arquivo Municipal de Lisboa / Câmara Municipal de Lisboa]]></publisher-name>
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<article-id>S2183-31762025000100302</article-id>
<article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.48751/cam-2025-23408</article-id>
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<article-title xml:lang="en"><![CDATA[State-sponsored communal dining in Britain in the early twentieth century: The National Kitchen and the British Restaurant compared]]></article-title>
<article-title xml:lang="pt"><![CDATA[Refeições comunitárias financiadas pelo Estado na Grã-Bretanha, no início do século XX: A Cozinha Nacional e o Restaurante Britânico comparados]]></article-title>
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<contrib contrib-type="author">
<name>
<surname><![CDATA[Evans]]></surname>
<given-names><![CDATA[Bryce]]></given-names>
</name>
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<aff id="Af1">
<institution><![CDATA[,Liverpool Hope University School of Humanities ]]></institution>
<addr-line><![CDATA[Liverpool ]]></addr-line>
<country>United Kingdom</country>
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<pub-date pub-type="pub">
<day>00</day>
<month>01</month>
<year>2025</year>
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<pub-date pub-type="epub">
<day>00</day>
<month>01</month>
<year>2025</year>
</pub-date>
<volume>ser2</volume>
<numero>23</numero>
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<copyright-year/>
<self-uri xlink:href="http://scielo.pt/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&amp;pid=S2183-31762025000100302&amp;lng=en&amp;nrm=iso"></self-uri><self-uri xlink:href="http://scielo.pt/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&amp;pid=S2183-31762025000100302&amp;lng=en&amp;nrm=iso"></self-uri><self-uri xlink:href="http://scielo.pt/scielo.php?script=sci_pdf&amp;pid=S2183-31762025000100302&amp;lng=en&amp;nrm=iso"></self-uri><abstract abstract-type="short" xml:lang="en"><p><![CDATA[Abstract This article explores the British experience of state-supported commensality between 1900 and 1950, focusing on the major wartime initiatives: National Kitchens (1917-1919) and British Restaurants (1940-circa 1954). In both cases, British urban authorities could apply for central government funding to establish a social eating venue which would employ a paid staff to serve price-capped, nutritious meals to the public. These venues were required to break even. This marked an important departure in British social history and in the history of public feeding. This article compares these two episodes in mass dining on a national scale. It scrutinises the experiment in government-led public feeding against five questions. Does the British example constitute radical commensality? What was the role of women in these schemes? What were the nutritional considerations? Were they genuinely popular, and what was the impact on morale? Why did state-led communal dining in Britain decline?]]></p></abstract>
<abstract abstract-type="short" xml:lang="pt"><p><![CDATA[Resumo Este artigo explora a experiência britânica de comensalidade apoiada pelo Estado entre 1900 e 1950, com foco nas principais iniciativas em tempos de guerra: as Cozinhas Nacionais (1917-1919) e os Restaurantes Britânicos (1940-cerca de 1954). Em ambos os casos, as autoridades municipais britânicas podiam candidatar-se a financiamento do governo central para estabelecer um espaço de refeição social, que empregaria pessoal remunerado para servir refeições nutritivas a preços controlados ao público. Estes espaços tinham de atingir o equilíbrio financeiro. Este facto representou uma mudança importante na história social britânica e na história da alimentação pública. O artigo compara estes dois exemplos de refeições em massa à escala nacional. Analisa a experiência de alimentação pública liderada pelo governo com base em cinco questões: O exemplo britânico constitui uma comensalidade radical? Qual foi o papel das mulheres nestes programas? Quais foram as considerações nutricionais? Foram verdadeiramente populares e qual foi o impacto no moral? Porque é que a restauração comunitária liderada pelo Estado declinou no Reino Unido?]]></p></abstract>
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<kwd lng="en"><![CDATA[Communal dining]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="en"><![CDATA[Wartime feeding]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="en"><![CDATA[National kitchen]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="en"><![CDATA[British restaurant]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="pt"><![CDATA[Refeição comunitária]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="pt"><![CDATA[Alimentação em tempo de guerra]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="pt"><![CDATA[Cozinha nacional]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="pt"><![CDATA[Restaurante britânico]]></kwd>
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